Bag-holder.



No. 655,236. Patented Aug. 7, I900. A. J. HURD.

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(Application filed Sept. 28, I899.

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ARTHUR J. HUR D, OF BARABOO, WISCONSIN.

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SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 655,236, dated August 7, 1900. Application filed September 23, 1899. $erialN0- 731.447. CNo model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR J. HURD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Baraboo,

in the county of Sank and State of Wiscon- 1 sin, have invented a new and useful Bag- I-Iolder, of which the following is aspecification.

The invention relates to improvements in bag-holders.

The object of the present invention is to improve the construction of bag-holders and to provide a simple, inexpensive, and eiiicient one adapted to distend a bag from side to side as far as possible and still afford sufficient space from front to rear to permit the bag to be filled conveniently and capable of arranging the front edge of the bag in a plane below the back of the bag to form the latter into a shield to prevent the escape of material at that point While the bag is being filled.

The invention consists in the construction and novel combination and arrangement of parts hereinafter fully described, illustrated in the accompanying drawings, and pointed out in the claim hereto appended.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspectiveview of a bag-holder constructed in accordance with this invention, a bag being shown in dotted lines. Fig. 2 is a vertical sectional view showing the device applied to a bag and illustrating the relative arrangement of the front and back of the latter.

Like numerals of reference designate cor-.

1 designates a bag-holder constructed of stout wire or other suitable material and adapted to be arranged Within the mouth of a bag 2 and to form the mouth of the said bag into an opening of great width and at the same time to provide sufiicient space between the front and back of the bag to enable the latter to be conveniently filled without liability of spilling the material. The opening formed by the mouth of the bag is substantially segmental or arc-shaped, and the back 3 of the said bag is arranged above the front edge 4 to form a guard or shield toprevent the material from escaping at that point While it is being shoveled into the bag.

The bag-holder consists of a hanger or body portion constructed of a single piece of .the back of the bag.

stout wire or other suitable material, which is doubled or bent between its ends to form a central supporting-loop 5 and itis extended at opposite sides of the loop 5 to provide arms 6, which are slightly curved and which are arranged at a slight inclination when the loop is vertical, whereby the front edge of the bag is arranged below the rear edge. The arms 6 by extending substantially longitudinally of the body are adapted to distend the bag from side to side as far as possible, and by slightly curving the arms to the front the necessary space from the front to the back of the bag is secured. The terminals of the material of which the hanger or body portion is construotedare coiled and extended rearward to form projections 7 for engaging the bag 2. The loop 5,which has downwardly-converging sides, is provided at its top with an eye 8, adapted to be arranged on a hook, nail, screw, or

other suitable support for holding the device at the desired elevation, and the bag-holder maybe readily removed from such support when desired. The hanger or body portion is supported by a main brace 9, constructed of stoutwire or other suitable material and consisting of an upper central portion 10 and inclined side portions 11. The central portion 10 extends across the upper portion of the loop 5 of the hanger and is connected with the sides by eyes 12, formed by coiling the material of which the brace is constructed and receiving the sides of the loop 5 at the upper ends of the converging portion 13. The sides 11 of the main brace extend outward and downward from the upper portion of the loop 5 and are connected with the arms 6 at a point slightly below the bottom of the loop 5, and these sides 11 of the brace 9 support and stiffen the arms 6 to prevent the same from sagging or curving forward too far. The terminals of the brace 9 are coiled around the arms 6 at 14 and are extended rearward to provide points or projections 15 for engaging The loop 5 is further stilfened by a lower approximately-horizontal brace 16, extending across thebottom of the loop and connecting the sides at the back of the bag. The brace 16, which is adapted to prevent the sides of the loop from spreading or collapsing, is connected with the same by having its terminals 17 coiled around the said sides, as clearly illustrated in 1 of the accompanying-drawings.

It will be seen that the bag-holder is exceedingly simple and inexpensive in construction, that it possesses great strength and du rability, and that it is capable of holding the mouth of the bag open as wide as possible and at the same time is adapted to provide suflicient space between the front and back of the said bag to enable the same to be conveniently filled. It will also be apparent that the mouth of the-bag is held in substantiallysegmental or arc-shaped form and that the back of the bag is caused to extend to a considerable distance above the front thereof to provide a shield or guard to prevent the ma- 'terial from escaping at the said back while it is being shoveled into the bag.

What is claimed is A bag-holder comprising a body portion havinga vertical loop and provided with arms 6 extending downward at a slight inclination substantially longitudinally of the body and curved to'the front, whereby they are adapted to distend themouth of the bag from" side to side as far as possible and form a substantially-segmental opening with the back of the bag elevated above the front to prevent the material from escaping at the back and at the sides, the lower brace connecting the sides of the loop at the bottom of the same, and the upper brace extending from the upper portion of the loop to the arms 6, to stifien them and prevent'them from sagging, substantially asdescribed,

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixed my signature in the presence of two witnesses.

. ARTHUR J. HURD.

Witnesses:

H. L. HALSTED, W. H. ORAMER. 

